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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s transport minister says he will pay a small fine for violating aviation rules by making a cellphone call from a plane.

The Civil Aviation Authority has fined Phil Twyford $340 for breaching rules it says were intended to prevent electromagnetic interference with aircraft instruments.

The authority says that because Twyford ended his call before takeoff, it did not pose a significant risk to the flight.

Twyford had earlier stepped down from his role overseeing aviation safety after making what he says was a minute-long call to a staffer in May after boarding a plane in Wellington that was bound for Auckland.

The breach was brought to light by an opposition lawmaker.

Twyford says he wants to reiterate his “unreserved apology” for his mistake.

MISSING TODDLER RETURNED

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a toddler who somehow made his way out of a New York City home and wandered the streets in the middle of the night has been reunited safely with his family.

Police had been alerted around 2 a.m. Sunday that an unattended child was spotted in the Bronx, near the Fordham Heights neighborhood.

Officers then found the nearly 2-year-old boy wearing a T-shirt and a diaper. The toddler didn’t seem injured but was taken to a hospital to be checked out as a precaution.

A relative had been caring for the boy. Once a parent learned he was missing and called authorities, the family was reunited.

No criminal charges are expected.

McCONNELL FACES PROTESTS AT DINNER

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A group of protesters confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about the Trump administration’s immigration policy as he left dinner in Kentucky, in the second such incident in under a month.

News outlets report the group outside Louisville’s Bristol Bar & Grille chanted “Abolish ICE!” on Saturday. The impromptu protest took place near where hundreds protested the government’s now-ended family separation policy outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.